Join us February 5, 2020 at 1:00 pm PST for this special webinar with best-selling authors Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD as they talk about their newly released book, The Power of Showing Up. Dan and Tina will share how the latest brain and attachment research makes clear that the quality of parental presence is key to … Read More
Oct 9, 2019 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada): The Power of Reflection in a Distracted World with Donald Altman, MA, LPC
We are delighted to have Donald Altman MA, LPC, join the GAINS community in a conversation about using reflection as an important coping skill in a distracted world. Join us as we ask whether the intrusion of technology is causing us to lose our ability to read and think deeply? In our lives that are focused on productivity are we … Read More
Two New books by Allan N Schore to be released March 2019: Right Brain Psychotherapy, and The Development of the Unconscious Mind
We are excited to announce that The Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology is releasing two upcoming books by Allan Schore in March 2019. Right Brain Psychotherapy “The latest groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work from one of our most eloquent and significant writers about emotion and the brain. An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only … Read More
David Mars November 14 at 8:00am PST: AEDP for Couples: Micro-movement, Gesture and Body Cues that Accelerate Trauma Treatment
AEDP for Couples: Micro-movement, Gesture and Body Cues that Accelerate Trauma Treatment We are thrilled to welcome David Mars, Ph.D., MFT, to the GAINS community as he leads us on an exploration to clarify and demonstrate how initially unconscious movement in individual treatment sessions can provide an access point for the acceleration of therapeutic work. David will make use of … Read More
Gathering the Self: A Necessary Act That is Fractured by Trauma
By Sarah Peyton, author of Your Resonant Self As I prepared myself to present a weekend workshop in Vancouver, British Columbia called Healing Addiction: Acknowledging the Impact of Trauma, I thought about the beauty of the words, “gathering oneself together.” There’s the in-breath that comes with the contracted diaphragm, a counterintuitive shortening of muscle that leads to the expansion of … Read More
All these years later I can still feel the echoes of my fear. By Kirke Olson, Psy.D.
Fear sparked by Hal, a large rage filled teenager with a chair raised high over his head, charging across my science classroom directly at me. His rage and my fear were suddenly interrupted by the noise of smashing glass as the chair crashed into the low hanging overhead light fixtures. We were both stunned. The stunned silence was gradually transformed … Read More
Editorial Musings Reconsidering the Nature of Trauma Bonnie Badenoch, PhD
Editorial Musings Reconsidering the Nature of T rauma Bonnie Badenoch, PhD Our word “trauma” comes directly from the Greek word titrosko, meaning “wound.” So from an interpersonal neurobiology perspective we might ask, “What is the nature of the wound to brain, mind, and relationships that produces both the objective conditions and subjective experience of trauma?” In mulling an answer to … Read More
An Interpersonal Neurobiology Lens on Leadership April 4, 2017 2:30 – 3:30 pm PT With Debra Pearce-McCall, PhD, LP, LMFT, Richard Hill, MA, MEd, MBMSc,
We are all leaders, whether we work in official leadership roles, or in our daily capacity to choose relational paths of connection, compassion, and communication in which we invite self, others, and the systems we live within to move toward more well-being. True leadership is responsive and directive, emergent and influencing, and facilitates/maintains healthy complex systems. Part of the … Read More
June 13, 2016 LIVING JOURNAL WEBINAR: Dr. Lynda Klau: Conscious Breathing: Learning to Free the Breath and Voice
RECORDING NOW ONLINE! Go to the “Living Journal” Link in the Top Menu Bar. Join Dr. Lynda Klau who will introduce you to Conscious Breathing: Learning to Free the Breath and Voice. Part One: An Experience Unlike most bodily functions, the act of breathing is automatic, and yet it can also be regulated with conscious intention. … Read More
Living Journal Webinar – Patty Wipfler
Weaving the Art of Listening into Parenting: 5 Powerful Tools RECORDING NOW ONLINE! click on Living Journal featuring Patty Wipfler, GAINS Advisory Board Member, Founder and Program Director of Hand in Hand Parenting, in a conversation with Debra Pearce-McCall, GAINS Co-President Join us for an introduction to five “Listening Tools,” practices that work to clear tension between parent and child, … Read More